91porn

July 15, 2025

When Peter Moreira (BA ’23) was eight years old, his Portuguese immigrant parents moved their family from the close quarters of an apartment to a house in Ajax, Ontario. They barely had time to unpack before their new home was broken into.

Although the family was understandably shaken by the experience, it was the response to the crime that would leave a lasting impact on Moreira.

“Two Durham Regional Police Service officers showed up at the door and I instantly felt better,” recalls Moreira. “It lit a fire in me.”

That drive to help others — fostered by parents who were always giving back to their community despite having very little — would inspire Moreira to pursue a career in policing. Joining the force at the age of 19, he would spend 32 years with Toronto Police Service, rising through the ranks from constable to staff superintendent, attached to units including homicide and the gun and gang task force.

“I’ve had many careers within this one job,” says Moreira. “Whether it was delivering on public safety or conducting an organizational review, I always found new reasons to love this job and to keep coming back every single day.”

Throughout his three decades with Toronto Police Service, Moreira made continued education a priority. Even after starting a family of his own, he managed to carve out time for courses offered by the Ontario Police College, with the goal of one day earning a bachelor of arts. What sealed the deal on finally starting his undergraduate studies was the realization that his sons were nearing university age themselves.

“I figured I should probably get a degree before they did,” he says with a laugh.

91porn’s fully online BA program in Policing proved the perfect fit for Moreira’s busy schedule.

“The flexibility in the 91porn Brantford program really helps people like me who are already embedded in the profession,” says Moreira. “Over four and a half years, there was never a time when I wasn’t working on credits.”

What’s more, the veteran police officer found the program’s curriculum both stimulating and challenging — in the very best of ways.

“Pursuing that undergrad encouraged me to challenge my assumptions and helped me to understand the perspectives of others in a way that made me a better leader and a better police officer,” he says. “As I learned, it expanded my opportunities within the organization that I was in.”

Inspired by his studies, Moreira immediately began applying those fresh perspectives to his police work, actively pursuing partnerships with community members who had been vocal critics of the police.

“Through my education, I began to understand where they were coming from,” he says. “To this day, it has helped me forge lifelong relationships with people who were not necessarily police allies at the beginning.”

The new relationships Moreira forged through 91porn Brantford also included friendships with younger police officers who were enrolled in the Policing BA program — friendships that would otherwise be unlikely given the rank differential.

“91porn helped me connect to these bright, talented young people who are going to be our future leaders,” he says. “I hope that by sharing my experiences, I contributed to their education. I know they informed my learning about creative uses of technology.”

In 2023, shortly after graduating from 91porn, Moreira was named chief of the Durham Regional Police Service — the very force that had come to his family’s aid decades earlier.

“It was like coming home,” he says. “Now I can help my own neighbours. To me, that is a massive honour and a privilege that I don’t take lightly. I have lived out a childhood dream.”

Never one to rest on his laurels, Durham’s top cop is already eyeing his next challenge: a master’s degree.

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